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Monday, December 21, 2020 China-Based Executive At U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre: Defendant Coordinated With The People’s Republic Of China To Target Dissidents And Disrupt Meetings  The U.S. Justice Department released the below information:  A complaint and arrest warrant were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Xinjiang Jin, also known as “Julien Jin,” with conspiracy to commit interstat...

Showing posts with label Showing posts with label Monday, December 21, 2020  The U.S. Justice Department released the below information:  A complaint and arrest warrant were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Xinjiang Jin, also known as “Julien Jin,” with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification.   Jin, an employee of a U.S.-based telecommunications company (Company-1) who was based in the People’s Rep...

China-Based Executive at U.S. Telecommunications Company Charged with Disrupting Video Meetings Commemorating Tiananmen Square Massacre Posted on Defendant Coordinated with the People’s Republic of China to Target Dissidents and Disrupt Meetings A complaint and arrest warrant were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Xinjiang Jin, also known as “Julien Jin,” with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification.  Ji...

Posted on December 19, 2020. Columnist Natalia Portiakova discusses how China secured a right to reciprocity regarding United States trade sanctions. This week, China issued a new Export Control Law. The new law is an all-encompassing list of national regulations, which has unified and updated certain provisions of six previous laws on trade and export. Most importantly, the new law has reinforced Beijing’s position with respect to challenging foreign sanctions. As early as at the end of last...

items specifically designed to measure, test, evaluate and examine items 1) to 7) above. Our Key Observations 1. Regulatory changes affecting importers and exporters Prior to the advent of the Export Control Law and the Encryption Announcement, the import and export of encryption items in China were administered by the SCA. Specifically, importers and exporters of encryption items were required to apply with the SCA or its local (provincial, regional or municipal) counterparts for the “Encryp...

What’s new? Crime and violence have simmered along the lengthy Colombian-Venezuelan frontier for decades. But the regional spillover of Venezuela’s political conflict and economic collapse has caused ties between the two states to fray as well, amid border closures, a migrant exodus and rival military exercises. Why does it matter? Numerous armed groups clash with one another and harm citizens along a border marked by abundant coca crops and informal crossings. High bilateral tensions c...

Information. >> senator lindsey graham also weighed in on cbs saying it would be a mistake, democratic presidential hopeful tim ryan agrees. >> i thought that was the one piece that we could count on president trump to hold the line on for national security purposes and hes loosening what he did. i think this is very, very dangerous. the white house economic adviser larry kudlow says trump isnt backing off national security concerns just loosening up for general merchandise. >> this is not a gen...

That would be great. this has to be priority. >> the committee has canceled meetings two weeks in a row. the chief financial who wof of huawei has been arrested in canada. she was arrested in vancouver on saturday, december 1st. a judge agreed to bar police and prosecutors from releasing information about the case. the ban prevents media reporting on evidence from the u.s. as charges are expected to be filed. in april, the u.s. justice department was investigating if huawei was investigating s...

>> well, its true there have only been a handful of criminal prosecutions over the last several years. theres reasons why its hard to charge a criminal violation. some of these are technical turgid in the weeds stuff but youve got to be able to produce admissible evidence there was direction and control of the agent of a foreign principal by the foreign principal. theres challenges in proving willfulness, which is an element of a criminal offense. so there are some structural challenges to provi...

You when i arrived in late 2014 we did an assessment of whether we were firing on all cylinders with respect to propelling forward investigations of all the areas of our responsibility, whether they be espionage, export control, or sanctions, theft of trade secrets, or investigations and prosecutions of the foreign agent registration act, which was another part of the mosaic of the national security mission of the department of justice. and so we endeavored to make sure that we were in as muscul...